GAO Report on the Defense Department’s F-35 Program

The following is the Nov. 9, 2026, Government Accountability Office report, F-35 Program: DOD Needs to Strengthen Oversight of Tens of Billions of Dollars in Parts. From the Report DOD’s F-35 aircraft program is the costliest in its history—its 26 million aircraft parts alone are worth around $31 billion. But we found that DOD struggles to account for these parts. For example, DOD’s records of its F-35 parts are outdated, inaccurate, and incomplete. And the F-35 program neither records all these

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